Saariaho's Noa Noa

I’m looking for a working version of the patch for Kaija Saariaho’s Noa Noa, for solo flute and electronics, preferably in MAX 5. The electronics were originally created by Jean-Baptise Barriere and Xavier Chabot. I’m assisting a flute player at the University of Colorado at Boulder with the technical aspects of the performance, and we’ve purchased the part from Chester Novello (Saariaho’s publisher), but the patch that they distribute online doesn’t work.

Though I’ve contacted both Barriere and Chabot (still waiting to hear back), I figured I should stretch out some tendrils and see if any one on the forums here already has a solution.

Or, alternately, if anyone has a solution to getting this old MAX application working, I’d be insanely grateful.

That’s actually a newer version than the one I have. They used to have a folder with the patches and samples at that link instead of a standalone, but the old version only runs in 4.6 and is locked anyway; it crashes Max 5.

I’ve been talking with the flute player, apparently US Distributor Flute World didn’t ship the CD ROM that now contains the the audio files that are missing with the part, so we are going to get a hold of them, and then Chester Novello as a last resort (to avoid shipping from the UK). Argh.

You might have already done this, but you could also try contacting the Finnish Music Information Centre. I’ve not ever talked to them, but have heard they can be extremely helpful (even sending free CDs and scores etc to people. Maybe it’s worth a try if you have run into a dead end?